A fiery Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) graces the cover of The Hunger Games soundtrack, which comes out March 20 ahead of the movie opening on March 23. It claims to have music “from District 12 and beyond,” but we already know the beyond, since the track list includes songs from Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars, the Decembrists, and Arcade Fire.
Check out the full size image of the cover and listen to Taylor Swift’s cut ‘Safe and Sound’ from the album after the jump.
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss on The Hunger Games soundtrack cover.
Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars new cut, ‘Safe and Sound’
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After dominating 2008 with the blockbuster Grand Theft Auto IV, and steamrolling through 2010 with the word-of-mouth sensation Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games is aiming to keep that momentum running into 2011 with its newest game, L.A. Noire. Due next spring, this is the rare Rockstar Game in which you don’t play a lowlife hoodlum/outlaw/gangster, but instead a detective working in late 1940s Los Angeles, a time period renown for shady dames, wide-brimmed hats, and a surfeit of darkly atmospheric crime to solve. And as the brand-new trailer makes clear, that detective is played by Mad Men‘s Aaron Stanton, i.e. Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s well-adjusted accounts man Ken Cosgrove. Clearly, Stanton’s new role isn’t quite as good natured. Check it out: